dtynan

You can make it cause the browser’s download/save popup to appear, rather than the PDF displaying in the browser, by going to your download in Download Monitor and setting Force Download to true (or yes or whatever it says).

For downloads that use EBD, you should look at the csv log from the EBD settings page rather than the Download Monitor log.

I am not sure what you mean by the description given for the other stuff you mention. I don’t understand what you mean by unable to hide the URL… Various other people on this support forum have gotten things to work inside javascript popup type windows — some have had to try a couple of different popup plugins to get things working. I have no knowledge of what they did or what plugins they used. Hard to guess why it might act differently between a plain page vs a popup in your case – maybe a javascript issue, who knows….

No, it doesn’t integrate with any newsletter or subscription plugins. You would have to do something extra to make the captured email addresses get added to your newsletter subscription list somehow.

There are other plugins that are built to get an email address from the user and subscribe them to a list (like a mailchimp or aweber list or whatever). If you look long enough you might find one that does both a download file and a subscription to a list, but I don’t recall which (if any) do that.

Did you put

<ebd />

in the form you made in CF7?
(Note that there is a space after “ebd” and before the slash)
See the screenshot page for an example:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-before-download/screenshots/

That looks pretty weird to me in your screenshot. Do your filenames somehow have hyphens in them? Or vertical bars?

I wonder why it’s over on the right side like that rather than underneath. Did you do some sort of customization to the settings or to the plugin code itself?

You must have a field named your-email in the CF7 form or else it will fail trying to insert a row into wp_ebd_link table because the email column cannot be null.

I have never tried it, but you might be able to make your-name a hidden field and just put some value in it in the form like “junk@junk.com” or something like that. As long as you don’t care about that value & as long as you are set to ‘inline’ then it should never try to send email to it & you wouldn’t care that it was junk@junk.com. That might work…

You have two different problems:

Problem 1:

You are encountering the following error when EBD tries to send the notification email to the wordpress admin. Not sure I have ever seen that before. What version of Contact Form 7 do you have installed? Did you test your CF7 install by making a page with just a CF7 form on it & made sure that it worked (before trying to get EBD working also)? I’m guessing you didn’t since this appears to be a CF7 error…

<b>Fatal error</b>:  Call to undefined method PHPMailer::getCustomHeaders() in <b>/home/isolatio/public_html/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/mail.php</b> on line <b>176</b><br />

Problem 2:

The fact that I can see that error is a problem. I can see it because it is being sent as the ajax response when the EBD form is submitted. The response should be a bit of json, but instead it is that error message. That happens when you have it set to log errors and when those errors are set to go to the screen rather than to a file. So, you probably have WP_DEBUG turned on and turning it off would fix this (probably). Or, you could set display_errors off and make it go to a file (this can be done using wordpress by dropping a line into a config file or sometimes people use php.ini). There is more than one way to do all this stuff, so it is difficult for me to tell you exactly what to do to make your set up work, but basically you cannot have errors displayed to the screen or else they get pulled into that ajax response & break everything.

Ok, good, I’m glad at least something works!

Looking at the hidden code stuff, it looks to me like that maybe could break if there was something weird in the CF7 form you made. If you took out the btn thing I referred to and you put in a [submit] like I suggested and you removed the [recaptcha] then that would eliminate all of those possibilities. Beyond that, I would look for any extra HTML that you added and remove it in case there is a broken or mismatched bit of HTML in there. And, finally, I would make sure there is no German text in there … nothing but plain ASCII normal english characters — nothing with umlauts or accent marks or anything like that.

I looked at the cases part of the page you pointed at. I don’t see any way to make that work like you have it without doing something custom (or maybe using some other plugin that could do it).

If you had a submit button underneath the 5 pdf choices then the 5 pdf choices could perhaps be 5 download choices on a single EBD form (implemented as radio buttons). You’d still have to use some crafty css and ikely some javascript and perhaps modify the plugin a little in order to get the radio button itself hidden and the image be clickable to select it with an outline or something. The user would then hit the Submit button and it would all be like a normal multi-download EBD form set up as radio buttons (a single select rather than checkbox multiselect). That seems doable to me, but would require some work & customizations.

Another way might be to make 5 EBD forms on that page. On each one you’d have to hide the input box for the email (the your-email field). You would have 1 email input box, like you have now, and 5 hidden ones. Then, you’d have to do something like make an onSubmit handler (or something similar) which would be in each of the 5 forms so that it jumped in and copied any text in the 1 visible input box into the hidden your-email input box for the form where the submit button was clicked. That would make getting the email address into the correct form work (even though you’d only have 1 visible input field). Each form would have the thumbnail image which would actually be a submit button for that form and each one would need a hidden variable with the correct download_id for that particular form. Obviously this is a good bit of work.

So, that’s two possibilities off the top of my head. There are various other ways it could be done. It might be worth looking at some other plugins. Or, it would be relatively easy to just code the javascript into some static html that would accomplish the UI that want, but then you’d lose the stuff like the notification email that gets kicked out and the data into the database and such, which sort of defeats the purpose.

Good luck…

Are you using single quotes in your shortcode? I don’t know if that’s supported .. I would guess it’s not. Make sure you are using double quotes, not single.

Like: download_id=”2529″
Not like: download_id=’2529′